"Fulfilling Vow": BJP's Pawan Singh Now Says He Will Fight Lok Sabha Polls

The Bhojpuri singer and actor had expressed his inability to contest from West Bengal's Asansol a day after the BJP had announced his name for the constituency.

Bhojpuri singer and actor Pawan Singh, who had expressed his inability to contest the Lok Sabha elections from West Bengal's Asansol just a day after the BJP announced his name for the constituency, took a U-turn on Wednesday stating that he will fight the polls to honour the promise he made to his mother.

Mr Singh, however, did not say from which constituency or from which state and on which party's ticket he will contest the elections.

"I will fight the elections to fulfil the promise I made to my mother, my society and the people," Mr Singh wrote on X